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Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of ''transcendent rootedness''--a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns.Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings--the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven--Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.

Kahn, Louis --- Architecture --- Kahn, Louis I., --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis I. --- Philosophy --- Kahn, Louis I., - 1901-1974 - Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974 --- architectuurfilosofie --- Kahn, Louis I., - 1901-1974

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Kahn, Louis --- Kahn, Louis I, --- Louis Isidore Kahn 1901-1974 (°Balt. eiland Osel (Saaramaa), Estonia, U.S.S.R.) LOKATIE 2 --- Architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; Louis I. Kahn --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten --- Kahn, Louis I. --- Architecte --- Architecture --- History --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, --- Criticism and interpretation --- 20e siècle --- Architectural drawing --- Histoire --- Kahn, Louis I., --- Architecture [Modern ] --- 20th century --- United States --- Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 - Criticism and interpretation. --- 72.07 --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Kahn, Louis Isadore, --- Kang, Luyisi, --- Schmuilowsky, Itze-Leib, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Architecture - United States - History - 20th century --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974 --- Kahn, Louis I, - 1901-1974 - Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis I, - 1901-1974

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La publication de ce livre coïncide avec le centenaire de la naissance de Louis Kahn. C'était une occasion d'organiser une nouvelle campagne photographique pour illustrer les propos de l'auteur et les oeuvres de l'architecte. Cet ouvrage constitue une nouvelle approche très sensible de Louis Kahn. En plus, on y trouve reproduits des plans originaux et des esquisses de base.

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"The importance of a drawing is immense, because it’s the architect’s language." — Louis Kahn to his masterclass, 1967. Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in ways both profound and subtle. Unlike previous publications on Kahn, which have focused on his built work and which considered the drawings foremost as illustrations of these, this is the first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into Kahn’s architecture and creative imagination. By offering a spectrum of close readings of drawings by Kahn and his associates in a series of incisive and richly illustrated essays, this book is at once an intimate artistic portrait of this important architect and a provocative and timely contribution to the current discourse on representation in architecture. For architects and students of architecture, Kahn’s lasting significance is not only in the buildings he built, but in how he designed them. Based on unprecedented archival research, engagingly presented by a group of eminent scholars and architects, and lavishly illustrated with over 900 highest quality reproductions, The Importance of a Drawing is destined to become a standard work in the literature on Louis Kahn.

Architectural drawing --- Architecture --- Kahn, Louis I., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Kahn, Louis --- 741:72.07 --- 72.07 --- Kahn, Louis Isidore 1901-1974 (°Osel, Saaramaa, Estland, Rusland). Emigreerde naar de USA --- Architectuurtekeningen --- Tekenkunst ; architecten, stedenbouwkundigen --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis I., - 1901-1974 - Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974 --- Kahn, Louis I., - 1901-1974 --- Architectural drawing. --- ARCHITECTURE / General. --- Dessin d'architecture